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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Supercomputer Predicts Optical, Thermal Properties of Complex Hybrid Materials
Researchers used a supercomputer to predict the electrical and optical characteristics of semiconductors fashioned from layered hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites...
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Google to Release DeepMind's StreetLearn for Teaching Machine Learning Agents to Navigate Cities
Google is preparing a November release of its DeepMind unit's StreetLearn dataset for training machine learning models to navigate cities without a map.
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Learning to se Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
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Mozilla's Ambitious Plan to Teach Coders Not to Be Evil
Several organizations last week jointly launched an academic contest to incorporate ethics into undergraduate computer science education.
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We’d Be Crippled by a Cyberattack on Our tilities
It's time we come up with a strategy to defend our nation from potentially crippling cyberattacks that would put states at the forefront of the fight.
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Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Dies of Cancer at Age 65
Allen was a philanthropist and also the owner of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, and had a stake in Seattle's Sounders soccer team...
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Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse
Writer Bruce Schneier is a fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Microsoft just made 60,000 of its patents open source
Apart from older Linux Kernel and Android patents, Microsoft's patent library includes upcoming technologies like LF Energy and HyperLedger.
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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Just 36 Teachers Across .S. Graduated in 2016 Ready to Teach CS
U.S. universities graduated only 36 new teachers prepared to teach computer science in 2016, and only 35% of U.S. high schools teach the subject.
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AI Tool Automatically Reveals How to Write Apps That Drain Less Battery
A new tool uses artificial intelligence to determine if a specific application feature should be improved to drain less battery power from a mobile device.
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The Robots Are Coming to Las Vegas
Las Vegas hotels are experimenting with robots and other automation.
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Facebook Tackles Rising Threat: Americans Aping Russian Schemes to Deceive
When Christine Blasey Ford testified before Congress last month about Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault, a website called Right Wing News sprang...
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Supercharged Crime-Scene DNA Analysis Sparks Privacy Concerns
Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year are set to become vastly more powerful, suggest...
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Cyber Tests Showed 'Nearly All' New Pentagon Weapons Vulnerable to Attack, GAO Says
Most of the U.S. Department of Defense's newest weapons systems are plagued by security issues, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women
Amazon discontinued an artificial intelligence recruiting tool its machine learning specialists developed to automate the hiring process because it was biased against...
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These Scientists May Be Your Next Members of Congress
A growing number of aspiring candidates for U.S. congressional offices have a background in science.
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HyQ Steps Across Gaps Despite Getting Yanked Around
Researchers used a convolutional neural network to reduce the amount of time the HyQ quadruped robot needs to plan its foot placement by several orders of magnitude...
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Forbes Releases Inaugural Top Women in Tech List in Honor of Ada Lovelace Day
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day 2018, Forbes issued its inaugural unranked list of Top Women in Technology.
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